Alan Cowell the Anti-Capitalist Sees Still More 'Greed' in His New York Times Reporting
London-based New York Times reporter Alan Cowell sympathized with the British off-shoot of Occupy Wall Street on Wednesday: "British Authorities Demolish Protest Camp at St. Paul's Cathedral."
Moving after midnight, bailiffs supported by police officers dismantled a tent encampment outside St. Paul's Cathedral here early Tuesday, ending a four-month protest that caused tension within the Church of England and resonated with Britons opposed to what they see as runaway capitalist greed.
Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protest at Zuccotti Park in New York, the camp was started late last year amid a deep economic slowdown, as jobs were being lost and social services cut even as Britain's investment bankers sought large bonuses.
Many protesters had begun to take down their tents last week after losing a battle in court over whether they could stay. But about 50 tents remained as the bailiffs, who are responsible for enforcing English judicial decrees, and police officers moved across the plaza in front of St. Paul's.
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The protest fed into a broader public outrage that led many British banks to reduce bonuses to their staffs.
Cowell's concerned with capitalist "greed." Last November Cowell issued a moralistic "Memo from London" trodding similar left-wing territory: "As the riots in London and elsewhere in August seemed to show, the profound gulf between haves and have-nots has been magnified by the inequalities and envies of a society that has built its newest altars to consumption and greed."
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Wait a minute! Back the truck up!
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:43am.
Cowell dishonestly acts as if bank bonuses are connected to social services.
as jobs were being lost and social services cut even as Britain's investment bankers sought large bonuses.
Is the British government paying those bonuses to the evil capitalists?
Is THAT why they have to cut money to social services programs?
Are you sure this isn't SIMON Cowell?
And I love this:
the profound gulf between haves and have-nots has been magnified by the inequalities and envies of a society that has built its newest altars to consumption and greed."
So where is Cowell's screed against ENVY??
Of course the gulf between
Submitted by Old Europe on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:50am.
Of course the gulf between rich and poor is always capitalism's fault and not the person's own. Britan has the highest teen pregnancy rates. Fornication and alcohol abuse is the highest in Europe and the same goes for illegitimate children. So maybe it's because these "poor" live without any moral values that they are unable to gin up anything. Have you ever witnessed the abject moral decadence in English working class ghettos? Look up the word "chav" and you know what I mean. The audacity if these socialists is unbelievable. No matter how many times it's been tried, socialism is bound to fail. But when it fails it's because of capitalism?! No, the reason we are in deep doodoo is is runaway welfare statism and politicians meddling with free markets. Who racked up 15 trillion dollars of debt? Capitalism and the banks? Or the politicians?
What is an "English working
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:54am.
What is an "English working class ghettos"? I guess Europe is a totally different experience than the USA.
Maybe,I'm being too easy on this reporter
Submitted by zenman1661 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 9:36am.
but in the first bold he's just reporting their nonsense viewpoint. That is part of the story. As for the second bold, in this country at the height of high unemployment, there were plenty of Wall Street Bankers looking for the same huge bonuses they were getting before the collapse.
So what?
Submitted by c5then on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:06am.
The bonuses for a particular employee at a private company are not in any way tied to the unemployment statistics.
It used to be that people used envy of the rich for positive encouragement. They wanted to be a member of that group. Now with the pervasiveness of socialistic ideology, in the media especially, people are using it as a negative. They want to punish the "rich" thinking it will make their lot better.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
It's a very simple formula...
Submitted by c5then on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:01am.
The "haves" are those who go out and work hard and earn money, even if they have to start at the bottom and work their way up. The "have nots" are those who sit and wait for the government to give them $$ to support them in their sloth and their thinking that they "deserve" more.
Almost every "have" has started out as a "have not" but was simply not willing to stay there and worked for their betterment.
The author is trying to make the false connection between a private company's pay to it's employees and the National Government having to cut back because they are way over their heads in debt. The two are not related. In fact, one could make the argument that the bonuses that are being vilified here will generate more taxes to the Government making it easier for them to continue their over-bloated social services.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
⇒ Breitbart Dead
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:36am.
Carry up a message with you, Andrew!
I will miss you.
Stupid Brit moron
Submitted by JLin on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:42am.
Capitalist "greed" is what keeps puds like you on the gravy train.
The mentality seems to be
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 11:12am.
The mentality seems to be that the government owns all of the money and some people are getting too much money that they do not deserve. The thought processes of these people are mind boggling.
The fun part of Cowell's
Submitted by celator on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 2:05pm.
The fun part of Cowell's story is that were it not for (as reported in the NYT, LOL) "greedy capitalists" like Carlos Slim Helu and others investing in the NYT's, he'd be working for the East Dumptruck Weekly Times, if he indeed had a job at all. Not sure why Cowell didn't mention Capitalist investment is the only money keeping the NYT afloat. He must have forget about that.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/business/media/20times.html
Alan Cowell crying about greed
Submitted by Steve Cakouros on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 5:03pm.
I did my college in Great Britain. The Brits are soft on Communism. Consequently they cry about everything if it promotes profit.
I worked in factories on summer vacations and can tell you that the BritIish almost to a man are lazy. Their sloth is the result of their love affair with Communism. Like all Socialists the British balk at the idea that one should earn his earnings.
In order to become a Socialist nation the Brits exchanged liberty for the promise that their government would take care of them.
Pity that old boy!